im super new at blender and im super confused... im trying to paint on my models body but it wont let me... i thought i just needed to set up a paintable material in the nodes however that didnt work either... my UV's are fine i think and ive tried using different material slots but it still didnt work. blackface culling is off, and my normals are fine too 😢 i tried watching a few videos but couldnt find anything to fix it 😭 does anyone know how i can fix this 😔

I'm Trying to figure out how to model the talons look and feel correct to my art and yet i have zero clue how i can make the talons look smooth. So please give tips or at least a tutorial of how i can make it good.

I used geometry nodes to makes this vines, when the leaves are in the shade they seems to look very dark

in the first image I used this hdri to have the strong sun directly on the leaves and with the shaded area so the diference can be seem

https://polyhaven.com/a/pizzo_pernice_puresky

in the second I used this overcast-less strong sun hdri

https://polyhaven.com/a/scythian_tombs_puresky

the third image shows the collection of the leaves, the leaves are just planes, or "cards", rendered using the overcast hdri

this are the leafs textures I used

https://ambientcg.com/view?id=LeafSet017

the last image is the shader nodes

after searching trough the internet I saw a tip to be to increase the transparency bounces in light paths in the render options but that dont seem to have effect

thanks in advance

I am making a halo spartan for vrchat and I'm following a youtube video https://youtu.be/TSXL06iKZKA?si=KRegRknFEjr7yLA9 but when I get to the uv map part it keeps moving around my texture. I'm following the video am I missing something? I'm also new to blender. Thanks for any help... also sorry for the video looking terrible

https://reddit.com/link/1w4qp7m/video/6habiswgazmh1/player

Почему плейн заходит за слой условной заливки анимации, хотя он впереди, на рендере заливка с лайном тоже оказываются впереди. Пожалуйста помогите:3

Hi, I have been on blender for 100 hours and I have spent ALL of these 100 hours, genuinely blanking tf out, following random guides, and just crashing out after half an hour of trying to install an add on that I myself do not fully understand.

I really want to learn blender, I REALLY have a LOT of projects I want to realize, and yet I have felt completely stuck with this program.

I figure maybe what I need is a program that incrementally lets me feel small victories by having me finish small projects, rather than having myself try to make yet another donut and crashing out before I am even done with the glazing

Blender just feels so incredibly overwhelming for me, because I am the type of person that either needs to understand 100% of my work space, or remove everything that I do not need, and doing that has felt impossible with blender

Please let me know of any good recommendations of courses that helped you overcome these feelings, and perhaps something I can follow along that is small but teaches me everything Id need to know

I cant explain it enough, in the time of these 100 hours, I have learned the very bare bone essentials

Hello, I am trying to make seamless FK/IK sequence
I have found a snapping addon https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/ik-fk-snapping-tool/#new that works very great but I don't understand how to correctly set up IK targets. The author says to copy the IK pole/target and parent it to the fk lower bone (which I did, the blue bones are those IK targets parented to FK arm), but it messes up my snapping. How to go about this? Without the blue target bones, the rig wont snap IK to FK

Hi! When I imported my FBX model into Blender, the skin on the character looked like this (kinda transparent) instead of opaque. Can someone help me? I'm not sure if has something to do with settings, tho...

How can I fix this without greatly altering the topology/geometry? I really love how it is turning out so far, but don’t really want to add more vertex. I use Toon BSDF glossy

I was following another forum thing where a person showed their node setup to adding gifs in blender and I followed it, here's my current node setup following the original persons setup

For context I want to display the gif on the face of the screen thats on the characters chest but when I do, its just transparent.

also this is where I found the original node setup incase needed :x https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/19273/is-it-possible-to-load-animated-gif-images

HI! I saw a post about this but it was from some time ago, I have reinstalled Blender, just installed 5.0.0. checked to install x64 (not amd cause i got nvidia) tried to download a certificate of authentification(otr smth like that), tried to check and uncheck "requires token auth", checked allow network connection! just tried many things and still i get this message everytime i try to drop an add-on, anyone knows what i can do? :(

I need help. So i'm making that billboard trees method to render that huge scene of the forest. And i used locked track camera object and limit rotation the billboard planes to make the planes always face the camera. This works like a charm but the problem comes with the particle system as i set particles rotations to object rotations and it worked until camera moves or rotate away from the original planes.

I want to make the individual instances face the camera

Hello everyone. I'd like to share with you a problem I've been struggling with for quite some time now. When I bake my low and high-poly models in Blender/Substance Painter/Marmoset, artifacts in the form of black dots appear at the corners of the model, and the high-poly normals appear to be overlapping in a zigzag pattern. Before contacting you, I tried countless methods to fix this problem. I've changed vertex placement to smooth out the angle, I've weighted normals, I've reset mesh transforms, I've used shrinkwrap to make it "slim" the high poly, I've done full retopology, I've unwrapped the mesh multiple times and checked seams on hard edges, I've created a custom cage, changed ray casting distances, baked by mesh names, I've deleted and added custom normals, I've added an absurd amount of polygons to the low poly to make sure that simply increasing the geometry count wouldn't help. Hell, I've even rebuilt the mesh from scratch, and absolutely none of it has helped. I'm attaching screenshots of the artifacts and wireframe here. It's probably worth noting that the problem occurs with these maps: normal, world space normal, curvature, and thickness. I've scoured the internet for this issue, including several forums, a ton of websites, and a long search on YouTube, but I've found nothing. Therefore, since I don't know a single professional 3D artist in real life, my only chance of solving this problem is to contact them here.

I don't know what's causing this issue. In Image 4 and 1, you can see that the objects for the control surfaces on the primary wing of the aircraft have perfectly coherent shading with the actual wing object. No interruption in the way the light hits the surface, it's completely smooth. I made them by making the wing as one object, and then seperating parts of the mesh for the control surfaces. That worked fine.

For the record, the 'rudder' is the object that I have selected in Image 1. The vertical stabiliser is the larger wing that the 'rudder' is connected to, also in Image 1.

I did the same exact thing for the rudder on the vertical stabiliser; I made the entire vertical stabilizer first, then seperated a part of the mesh for the rudder. And all of a sudden, the lighting on the rudder is completely messed up. I don't know why it's doing that. All the normals are fine, I've checked. All blue on the outside.

The faces on the rudder are perfectly in line with the faces on the vertical stabiliser. No overlap or anything. I don't know what's causing the lighting for the rudder to be so off. Google kept showing me issues and forums completely unrelated to what I was describing. Any help?

disclaimer: I'm a total noob in blender and just blindly following a tutorial!

Blender 5.0.1: My render in that specific spot is showing a distortion. It's not happening in any other spot. The objects have flat textures mostly, there's just two light sources (one without shadows), and there's a glare. I attached a screenshot of all the nodes effective.

I'm not sure what more details to share tbh.

I want to 3d print this model (my printer uses PLA) and I want this spongy texture to also show in the print, how can I do that?

I'm trying to recreate this lighting style. I've tried setting up the lighting myself, but I can't figure out how to achieve this look. Any advice?

My current settings:

• Render Engine: EEVEE
• No HDRI
• No Sun or other lights

Would anyone be able to tell me whether the lighting in the reference image might have been created using something like HDRI, Sun, or Cycles?

EDIT: ADDING MORE IMAGES IN COMMENTS BELOW
Also currently there are no passive rigid bodies yet to collide with if that matters but i did experiment with that too.

I am trying to make this backboard shatter spontaneously with no outside influence from another object. The screenshot is just the base of what I'm working with, no physics or anything applied here.

I have watched a few different YT videos and also just looked up online how to do it.

I have tried this workflow:
Duplicate the backboard -> Apply scale -> subdivide in edit mode -> cell fracture -> add active rigid body to all -> keyframe "animated" from on to off -> make sure rigidbodyworld is set to the right frames etc.

When I play the animation nothing happens. All the fractured pieces are just frozen there.

I originally had this in a much larger file with a lot of meshes and stuff and was on like frame 100,000 which probably sounds insane but I guess I haven't learned much about optimizing big animation projects like that lol. Anyway I moved this specific part into it's own Blender file and deleted all the unused parts of the scene just to optimize performance, but I've been running into the same problems. The animation just freezes.

I've tried baking the animation too, I've tried a bunch of different cell fracture settings and rigid body settings but nothing seems to work and Blender has been crashing a lot I'm really at my wit's end lol. Any help is appreciated.

I've got this plane with an image texture, the black parts are meant to be transparent, and they were until I added the halftone dots and the cell shading. I believe that converting the shader into RGB for the effects got rid of the alpha but I'm not so sure, is there a way to restore my lost transparency?

i want to make something like this shoe thread and i want to bend and extrude it whit the curve it self just like when add depth to your curve

and please if you have a better idea for this i would appreciate it

Tm trying to acheive this lighting but I cant do it, It tried something but for now i was only a linear gradient and not a edge gradient like in the photo Any ideas ?

Hello everyone,
my goal is to create multiple animations of different electrical components. These red balls are supposed to represent electrons. My method of using an array modifier, deforming the array with a curve, and parenting the array to an empty to create movement along the curve has been the closest ive gotten to my desired result, however, whenever theres a bend/corner in the curve, it deforms the individual balls and makes it look strange. I have attempted to use Geometry nodes, but that also hasnt gotten me much further.

I really, really do not want to manually add and animate every single ball, considering i also have to make about 6 or so animations like this. Google has not given me anything useful. Does anyone have any pointers, or a Geo-node setup that does something similar? Thanks in advance.

This is the rendered view of the model. As you can see, the edges where the hair cards extrude from look very sharp. Only after deleting the hair cards does it get the intended smooth shading. I guess you could fix this by hiding the solid mesh with more hair but i can't afford to use much more vertices. The hair cards and the solid mesh share the same color (#331D0EFF). I don't mind that the solid surface is visible, I just need it to be smoother.

As part of a project I am working on I am hoping to create an accurately simulated image of a satellite in Orbit. I've attached my best rendering yet but I was hoping to get something which looks more like the latter 2 images.

I want to make sure I accurately have the brightness of the sun, the brightness of the light reflected by the earth and the colours of the camera (the camera ion question is the MVP aerospace KissCam V2).

I'm a bit of a blender noob so sorry if this is a stupid question.